I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.Michel de Montaigne
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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Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
Michel de Montaigne
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.
Michel de Montaigne
We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
Michel de Montaigne
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