Confidence in another person's virtue is no light evidence of your own.
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A man of understanding has lost nothing, if he has himself.Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Of all the infirmities we have, the most savage is to despise our being.
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Our wisdom and deliberation for the most part follow the lead of chance.
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Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.
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I speak the truth, not my fill of it, but as much as I dare speak, and I dare to do so a little more as I grow old.
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Virtue can have naught to do with ease.... It craves a steep and thorny path.
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