The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEFortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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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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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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I 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 do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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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.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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