My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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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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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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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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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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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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I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
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