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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. "
Michel de Montaigne
Loved
I Can
You
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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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" A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can. "
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" A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears. "
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" If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love. "
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" There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom. "
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" He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak. "
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" A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them. "
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" I quote others only in order the better to express myself. "
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" Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul. "
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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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" There are some defeats more triumphant than victories. "
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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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" 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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" If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it. "
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You
" How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables. "
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" How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime! "
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" There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to. "
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" It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor. "
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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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" Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly. "
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