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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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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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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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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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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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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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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.
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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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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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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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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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