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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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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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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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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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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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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