An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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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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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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