A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe 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 are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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For truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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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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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
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Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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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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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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