"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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"Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.“
-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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