Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIt 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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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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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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One may be humble out of pride.
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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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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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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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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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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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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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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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