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A particularly fine head on a man usually means that he is stupid; particularly deep philosophers are usually shallow thinkers; in literature, talents not much above the average are usually regarded by their contemporaries as geniuses. ↗

— Robert Musil

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I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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I don't get paid like a person that everyone knows, but I get paid so much more in so many ways. ↗

— Esai Morales

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There's no way for me to know, but my best guess, as it must be for everyone, is that other people are pretty much like me. ↗

— Daniel Keys Moran

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