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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.

- Michel de Montaigne
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Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.

Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.

I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.

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.

I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

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.

We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.

There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.