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It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have all one wants.
Our reason is always disappointed by the inconstancy of appearances.
The world is ruled by force, not by opinion; but opinion uses force.
It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the Truth.
Everything that is written merely to please the author is worthless.
To call a king "Prince" is pleasing, because it diminishes his rank.
Any unity which doesn't have its origin in the multitudes is tyranny.
Unable to make what is just strong, we have made what is strong just.
We are never in search of things, but always in search of the search.
Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength.
All man's troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room.
The heart has arguments with which the logic of mind is not aquainted.
All evil stems from this-that we do. Know how to handle your solitude.
Each one is all in all to himself; for being dead, all is dead to him.
Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.
Everything that is incomprehensible does not, however, cease to exist.
Those honor nature well, who teach that she can speak on everything...
Jesus Christ came to tell men that they have no enemies but themselves.
Meanings receive their dignity from words instead of giving it to them.
Rivers are roads which move, and which carry us whither we desire to go.
Opinion is, as it were, the queen of the world, but force is its tyrant.
Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
The world is satisfied with words, few care to dive beneath the surface.
The end point of rationality is to demonstrate the limits of rationality.
It is not in Montaigne, but in myself, that I find all that I see in him.
Dans une grande a" me tout est grand. In a great soul everything isgreat.
He who does not know his way to the sea should take a river for his guide.
All the good maxims which are in the world fail when applied to one's self.
It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.
There are plenty of maxims in the world; all that remains is to apply them.
All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
No soul of high estate can take pleasure in slander. It betrays a weakness.
The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in others.
Do you wish people to speak well of you? Then do not speak at all yourself.
It is not possible to have reasonable grounds for not believing in miracles.
The law required what it could not give. Grace gives that which it requires.
All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice.
Don't try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years.
Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our thoughts of yesterday.
All sorrow has its root in man's inability to sit quiet in a room by himself.
Force rules the world-not opinion; but it is opinion that makes use of force.
Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
Imagination is the deceptive part in man, the mistress of error and falsehood.
We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.
What amazes me most is to see that everyone is not amazed at his own weakness.
Custom creates the whole of equity, for the simple reason that it is accepted.
True eloquence makes light of eloquence. True morality makes light of morality.
You corrupt religion either in favour of your friends, or against your enemies.
Our own interests are still an exquisite means for dazzling our eyes agreeably.
Most of the evils of life arise from man's being unable to sit still in a room.