When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books they quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
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... there is nevertheless a certain respect, a general duty to humanity, not only to beasts that have life and sense, but even to trees and plants. We owe justice to men, and graciousness and benignity to other creatures ... there is a certain commerce and mutual obligation betwixt them and us.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
It is a thorny undertaking, and more so than it seems, to follow a movement so wandering as that of our mind, to penetrate the opaque depths of its innermost folds, to pick out and immobilize the innumerable flutterings that agitate it.
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There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.
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The easy, gentle, and sloping path ... is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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