The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThose who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
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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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If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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One may be humble out of pride.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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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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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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