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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.

Michel de Montaigne

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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.
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Content Contractor Mind Sign Weariness
Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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Ashamed Let Not Speak Think
In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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Anything Book Education Good Hand True
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
She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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Bother Do Head Job Perfectly She
It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
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Activity Children Game Minded Most Note Play Seen Serious Should
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
How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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Condemnation Crime Criminal More Than Witness
He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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Argument Command Establish Noise Reason Show Weak
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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More Some Defeat Triumphant Victory
Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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Bedfellow Fame never Tranquility
Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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Another Confidence God Goodness Hood Proof
The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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Certain Cheerfulness Most Sign Wisdom
I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
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Contradiction Go Keep Mad Mankind Myself Some Work Write
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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Blunder Book Curriculum Page Prank Servant Table Talk
Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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Able Event Govern Myself

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