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 conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
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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 have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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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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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 know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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One may be humble out of pride.
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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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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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