We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIf 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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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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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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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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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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