Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
From Michel de Montaigne
The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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.
Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.
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