A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEPoverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
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My trade and art is to live.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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The prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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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 little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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