How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThere is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
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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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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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One may be humble out of pride.
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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 public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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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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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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If 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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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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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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