The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNENo pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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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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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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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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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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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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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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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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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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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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