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It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
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We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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An unattempted lady could not vaunt of her chastity.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.
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