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 MONTAIGNEConfidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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The prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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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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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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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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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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The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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