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 MONTAIGNEVirtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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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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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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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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If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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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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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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My trade and art is to live.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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