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French Moralist Inspirational Quotes (1561)

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Love receives its death-wound from aversion, and forgetfulness buries it.
Jean de la Bruyere
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To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start
Jean de La Fontaine
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It is a human tendency to measure truth and error by our capacity.
Michel de Montaigne
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Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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The only good histories are those written by those who had command in the events they describe.
Michel de Montaigne
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There are two equally dangerous extremes-to shut reason out, and to let nothing else in.
Blaise Pascal
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A wise man neither suffers himself to be governed, nor attempts to govern others.
Jean de la Bruyere
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Even if misfortune is only good for bringing a fool to his senses, it would still be just to deem it good for something.
Jean de La Fontaine
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Human beings must be known to be loved but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
Blaise Pascal
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There are only three events in a man's life birth, life, and death he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.
Jean de la Bruyere
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Among the liberal arts, let us begin with the art that liberates us.
Michel de Montaigne
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Is there a polity better ordered, the offices better distributed, and more inviolably observed and maintained, than that of bees?
Michel de Montaigne
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People reveal their character even in the simplest things they do. Fools do not enter a room, nor leave it, nor sit down, nor rise, nor are they silent, nor do they stand up, like people of sense and understanding.
Jean de la Bruyere
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Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.
Blaise Pascal
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Malice sucks up the greatest part of its own venom, and poisons itself.
Michel de Montaigne
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The honor we receive from those that fear us, is not honor those respects are paid to royalty and not to me.
Michel de Montaigne
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Children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
Michel de Montaigne
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Rivers are highways that move on and bear us whither we wish to go.
Blaise Pascal
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A foreign war is a lot milder than a civil war.
Michel de Montaigne
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Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.
Blaise Pascal
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A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself a modest man does not talk of himself.
Jean de la Bruyere
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The world is satisfied with words. Few appreciate the things beneath. [Fr., Le monde se paye de paroles peu approfondissement les choses.]
Blaise Pascal
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Children are overbearing, supercilious, passionate, envious, inquisitive, egotistical, idle, fickle, timid, intemperate, liars, and dissemblers they laugh and weep easily, are excessive in their joys and sorrows, and that about the most trifling objects they bear no pain, but like to inflict it on others already they are men.
Jean de la Bruyere
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That is why Bias jested with those who were going through the perils of a great storm with him and calling on the gods for help: Shut up, he said, so that they do not realize that you are here with me.
Michel de Montaigne
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