The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEOnce 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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It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
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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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Love 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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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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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.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
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If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.
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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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