When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIt is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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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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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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One may be humble out of pride.
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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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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Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
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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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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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