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.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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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.
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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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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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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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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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
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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 soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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