There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEPoverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil’s alphabet – the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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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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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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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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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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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 have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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