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 MONTAIGNEA man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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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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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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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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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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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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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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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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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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