The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man’s estate.
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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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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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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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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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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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The prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum.
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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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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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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