Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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My trade and art is to live.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
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