An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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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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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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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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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
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