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" Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows. "

Michel de Montaigne

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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 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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" 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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" Few men have been admired of their familiars. "

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" Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations. "

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" There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge. "

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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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" Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul. "

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" I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly. "

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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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" Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience. "

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" A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. "

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" We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom. "

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" I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it. "

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" A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can. "

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