Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEPoverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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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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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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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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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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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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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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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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