Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThere are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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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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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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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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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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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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It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
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