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

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Germany

Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.

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Virtue

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.

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

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Mind

Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.

There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.

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Obvious

Vanity

There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.

The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.

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Variety

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

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Fear

Passion

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

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Wisdom

Cheerfulness

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

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Conversation

There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.

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Family

Trouble

The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.

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Actions

Ugly

The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.