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" Ambition is not a vice of little people. "
Michel de Montaigne
Little
Ambition
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" No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port. "
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" My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened. "
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" Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think. "
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" Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know. "
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" Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face. "
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" The thing I fear most is fear. "
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" Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition. "
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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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" There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge. "
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" I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better. "
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" How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables. "
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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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" I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself. "
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" Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations. "
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" Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie. "
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" The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre. "
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" The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing. "
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" I quote others only in order the better to express myself. "
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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" For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions. "
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