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.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEEven 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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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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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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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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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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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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