I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNETis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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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 know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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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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It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
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