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 MONTAIGNE
We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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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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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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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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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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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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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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