Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe 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.
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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My trade and art is to live.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil’s alphabet – the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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