There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe 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.
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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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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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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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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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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
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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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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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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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