The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
From Michel de Montaigne
I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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