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Collected Maxims and Other Reflections: With Parallel French Text (Oxford World's Classics)
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It is failings that show human nature, and merits that distinguish the individual; faults and misfortunes we all have in common; virtues belong to each one separately.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe • Maxims and Reflections
Be no wiser than is necessary, but be wise in moderation. Letter of Paul to the Romans, 12
lindaraquelita • A Catalog of Montaigne's Beam Inscriptions
If any man thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself. Letter of Paul to the Galatians, 6[.3].
lindaraquelita • A Catalog of Montaigne's Beam Inscriptions
Perhaps he is a fool and a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
James Baldwin • Giovanni's Room
Author Francois de La Rochefoucauld reminds us that we often justify our mistakes rather than addressing them:
"We try to make virtues out of the faults we have no wish to correct."
"We try to make virtues out of the faults we have no wish to correct."
3-2-1: How to deal with stress, forging your own reality, and learning vs. achieving
“You know yourself mostly by your thoughts.
Everyone else in the world knows you only by your actions.
Everyone else in the world knows you only by your actions.