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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. "
Michel de Montaigne
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Me
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" It is not death, it is dying that alarms me. "
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" Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee. "
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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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" 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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" Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly. "
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" There are some defeats more triumphant than victories. "
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" I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie. "
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" Not being able to govern events, I govern myself. "
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" Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations. "
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" Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way. "
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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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" It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor. "
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" A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. "
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" A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself. "
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Wise
" I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly. "
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" There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves. "
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Rejoice
Good
" An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity. "
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Boast
Chastity
" Ambition is not a vice of little people. "
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Ambition
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" I quote others only in order the better to express myself. "
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Better
Others
" Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it. "
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Forget
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" There is no passion so contagious as that of fear. "
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Contagious
" Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know. "
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Believed
Least
" He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak. "
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Argument
He
" 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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Education
Good
" There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom. "
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Little
" Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self. "
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Self
" Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep. "
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" No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port. "
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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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