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I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.

Michel de Montaigne

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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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More Some Defeat Triumphant Victory
Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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Bear Condition Every Human Man Whole Stam
There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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More Obvious Perhaps Vanity Write
There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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Do Good Gratification Make Ourselves Rejoice Sort
We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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Conscience Labour Leave Memory Only Stuff Understanding Unfurnish Void
No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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Communication Pleasure Savor Without
It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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Absolute Being Divine Enjoy How Perfection Rightfully Virtual
When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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Amuse Cat Her Herself Know More Play Whether
Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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Admire Familiar Few Men
I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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Better Express Myself Only Other Quote
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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Give Him Importance Love Man Reason
There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
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Alone Communication Grief Leasure Left Mind Much No One Produce Sprightly
A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
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Bent Look Matter Merely Oar Se Straight Them Thing Water
The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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Finest Have Most Soul Suppleness Variety
Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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Bedfellow Fame never Tranquility
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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Affection Behaviour Frame Grace Imprint Infancy Instruction Keeper Learn Nurse Respect Sport

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