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French Moralist Inspirational Quotes (1561)

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Do little things as if they were great, because of the majesty of the Lord Jesus Christ who dwells in thee.
Blaise Pascal
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
Michel de Montaigne
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Man's grandeur is that he knows himself to be miserable.
Blaise Pascal
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I am one of those who hold that poetry is never so blithe as in a wanton and irregular subject.
Michel de Montaigne
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One has to do something new in order to see something new.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. [Fr., Car c'est double plaisir de tromper le trompeur.]
Jean de La Fontaine
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The truth of these days is not that which really is, but what every man persuades another man to believe.
Michel de Montaigne
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Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.
Michel de Montaigne
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But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.
Jean de La Fontaine
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
Michel de Montaigne
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The most universal quality is diversity.
Michel de Montaigne
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Those great efforts of intellect, upon which the mind sometimes touches, are such that it cannot maintain itself there. It only leaps to them, not as upon a throne, forever, but merely for an instant.
Blaise Pascal
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La raison du plus fort est toujours la meilleure. The reason of the strongest is always the best.
Jean de La Fontaine
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To divert myself from a troublesome fancy, it is but to run to my books they presently fix me to them, and drive the other out of my thoughts, and do not mutiny to see that I have only recourse to them for want of other more, real, natural, and lively conveniences they always receive me with the same kindness.
Michel de Montaigne
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It is a proof of boorishness to confer a favor with a bad grace it is the act of giving that is hard and painful. How little does a smile cost?
Jean de la Bruyere
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True it is that she who escapeth safe and unpolluted from out the school of freedom, giveth more confidence of herself than she who comet sound out of the school of severity and restraint.
Michel de Montaigne
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No two men ever judged alike of the same thing, and it is impossible to find two opinions exactly similar, not only in different men but in the same men at different times.
Michel de Montaigne
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You've tried to reform what will not learn. Shut doors on traits that you wish were dead They will open a window and return.
Jean de La Fontaine
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Discourses on humility are a source of pride in the vain and of humility in the humble. So those on scepticism cause believers to affirm. Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, few doubtingly of scepticism.
Blaise Pascal
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It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness.
Michel de Montaigne
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The State not seldom tolerates a comparatively great evil to keep out millions of lesser ills and inconveniences which otherwise would be inevitable and without remedy.
Jean de la Bruyere
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Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.
Blaise Pascal
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The perpetual work of your life is but to lay the foundation of death.
Michel de Montaigne
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Kind words produce their own image in men's souls and a beautiful image it is. They soothe and quiet and comfort the hearer. They shame him out of his sour, morose, unkind feelings. We have not yet begun to use kind words in such abundance as they ought to be used.
Blaise Pascal
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