"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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"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.“
-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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"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
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"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."
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"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination."
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"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant."
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"Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love."
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"Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not."
-Carl Jung
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