The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI 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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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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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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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
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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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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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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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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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