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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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Love
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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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.
Michel de Montaigne
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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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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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
Michel de Montaigne in
Marriage
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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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