The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEEven 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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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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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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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
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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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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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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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