A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEEven from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
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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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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
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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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One may be humble out of pride.
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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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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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
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