Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNELove to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them… Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.
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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.
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It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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