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 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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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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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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In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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