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So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination. ..And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do no bring forth in the agitation.

– Michel de Montaigne

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There is as much difference between us and ourselves as there is between us and others.

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There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.

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Even on the highest throne in the world, we are still sitting on our ass.

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It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one.

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Each man calls barbarism whatever is not his own practice...for we have no other criterion of reason than the example and idea of the opinions and customs of the country we live in.

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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.

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The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.

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Virtue craves a steep and thorny path.

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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

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A man of understanding has lost nothing, if he has himself.

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Ambition is not a vice of little people.

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He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.

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I believe it to be true that dreams are the true interpreters of our inclinations; but there is art required to sort and understand them.

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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself.

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I consider myself an average man, except in the fact that I consider myself an average man.

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

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I quote others in order to better express myself.

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I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can.

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If falsehood, like truth, had but one face, we would be more on equal terms. For we would consider the contrary of what the liar said to be certain. But the opposite of truth has a hundred thousand faces and an infinite field.

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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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In the pre-dawn deepest dark the awakening

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It is a common seen by experience that excellent memories do often accompany weak judgments.

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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others

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Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a flea, yet he makes gods by the dozens.

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No man is exempt from saying silly things the mischief is to say them deliberately.

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No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.

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Once you have decided to keep a certain pile, it is no longer yours; for you can't spend it.

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Since we cannot match it let us take our revenge by abusing it.

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The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.

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The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.

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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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We have more poets than judges and interpreters of poetry. It is easier to write an indifferent poem that to understand a good one.

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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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When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are always believed; his praises never.

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When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

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Wise men have more to learn of fools than fools of wise men.

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