Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
From Michel de Montaigne
There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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.
We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.
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.
The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.
I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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