How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThose who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
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Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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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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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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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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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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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.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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