The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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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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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
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Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
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