There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEMake your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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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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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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My trade and art is to live.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
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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 finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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