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" I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics. "
Michel de Montaigne
Any
Other
Myself
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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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" An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity. "
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" There are some defeats more triumphant than victories. "
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" I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better. "
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" The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death. "
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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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" There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves. "
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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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" Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie. "
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" In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum. "
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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 world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing. "
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" My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened. "
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Most
" There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state. "
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Much
" Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way. "
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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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Love
" Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it. "
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Forget
Wish
" The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness. "
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" Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself. "
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" Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep. "
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Life
Dreams
" Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity. "
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Stubborn
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" Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head. "
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His
Man
Head
" It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity. "
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Play
Playing
Activity
" Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky. "
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She
Chance
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" It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully. "
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How
Enjoy
" Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face. "
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Than
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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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" Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity. "
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