Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
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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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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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 finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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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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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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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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