I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIf 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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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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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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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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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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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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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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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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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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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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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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