A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNENothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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One may be humble out of pride.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
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The prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
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