There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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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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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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One may be humble out of pride.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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