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 MONTAIGNEI 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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If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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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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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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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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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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There 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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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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