The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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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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The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
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Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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