The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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My trade and art is to live.
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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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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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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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If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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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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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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It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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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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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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For truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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