Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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