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.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThose who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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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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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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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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Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil’s alphabet – the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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