A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEFor 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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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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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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If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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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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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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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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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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In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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