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.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNELet us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
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The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
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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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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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