We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEEvery man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
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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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One may be humble out of pride.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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For truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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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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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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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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Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil’s alphabet – the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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If 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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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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