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.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThere are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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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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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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