If Montaigne is a man in the prime of life sitting in his study on a warm morning and putting down the sum of his experience in hi
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It is only possible to succeed at second-rate pursuits--like becoming a millionaire or a prime minister, winning a war, seducing b
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I blame the newspapers because every day they call our attention to insignificant things, while three or four times in our lives,
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The truth is that Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipati
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Perhaps universal history is the history of the diverse intonation of some metaphors.
Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare it is si
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Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, becau
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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive.... He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the t
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A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.
I have only made this [letter] longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
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