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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.

Michel de Montaigne

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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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Complain Much Myself Ordinary People Speak Themselves Think
It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
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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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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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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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Article Fable Faith Held Many Thing Today Yesterday

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