We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIf a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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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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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
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