Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
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Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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