The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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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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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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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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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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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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I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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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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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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