"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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"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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"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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"Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous."
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"Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement."
-Ludwig Wittgenstein
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"We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine."
-H. L. Mencken
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"To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge."
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"Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity."
-Jose Marti
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