He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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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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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.
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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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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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My trade and art is to live.
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The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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