Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNENothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil’s alphabet – the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
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If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.
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I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
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