The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.

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Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity.

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The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.

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It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness.

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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.

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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.

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'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.

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I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can.

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