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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.

Michel de Montaigne

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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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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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It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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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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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.
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For truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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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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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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