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.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEDeath, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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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 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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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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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.
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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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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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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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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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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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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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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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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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