Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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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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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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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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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.
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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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The prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum.
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