Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEDeath, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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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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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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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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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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