If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
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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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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The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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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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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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