If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.
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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It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
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I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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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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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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For 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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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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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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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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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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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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