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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.

Michel de Montaigne

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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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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 entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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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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Alone Communication Grief Leasure Left Mind Much No One Produce Sprightly
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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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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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
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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More Some Defeat Triumphant Victory
It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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Perpetual Saw See World
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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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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Better Express Myself Only Other Quote
He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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