If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEFor truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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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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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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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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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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For truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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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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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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