I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNENo wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
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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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Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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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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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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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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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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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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My trade and art is to live.
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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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