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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.

Michel de Montaigne

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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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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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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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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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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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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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