The prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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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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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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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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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
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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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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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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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