Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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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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The thing I fear most is fear.
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If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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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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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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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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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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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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