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.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThere is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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The prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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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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There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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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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