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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 do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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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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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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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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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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Flee From Know Not Search Well
We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
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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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Answer Express Feel Love Man Myself Urge Wherefore
We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
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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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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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