The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEAge imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil’s alphabet – the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them… Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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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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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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