"If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I."
-Michel de Montaigne
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"It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.“
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"The thing I fear most is fear."
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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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"If you don't know how to die, don't worry Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you don't bother your head about it."
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"Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul."
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"A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband."
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"I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues."
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"Wit is educated insolence."
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"In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office."
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