The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIf 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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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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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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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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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 strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man’s estate.
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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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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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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
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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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We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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