The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEOnce 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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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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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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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
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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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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
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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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