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 MONTAIGNEThe public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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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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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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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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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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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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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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