A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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I 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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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
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We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
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If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man’s estate.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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