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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
Michel de Montaigne
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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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.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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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.
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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.
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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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