When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIf 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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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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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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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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My trade and art is to live.
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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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.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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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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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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