Ambition is not a vice of little people.
From Michel de Montaigne
Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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.
I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.
It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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