My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.Michel de Montaigne
The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
Michel de Montaigne
There is no man so good who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the law, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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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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