There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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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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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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