Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThose who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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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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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them… Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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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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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
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I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man’s estate.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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