There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIf a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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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 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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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man’s estate.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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