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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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It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.

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It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.

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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.

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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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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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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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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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Feel Memory never Should Unless Venture
Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.

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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.

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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.

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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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Familiar Few Men
If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.

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If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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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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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.

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