The thing I fear most is fear.
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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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.
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A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
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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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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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If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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One may be humble out of pride.
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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.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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