A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEHe who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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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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My trade and art is to live.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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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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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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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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The 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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One may be humble out of pride.
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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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