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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.

Michel de Montaigne

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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 prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum.
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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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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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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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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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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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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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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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More Obvious Perhaps Vanity Write

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