Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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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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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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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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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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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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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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