There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEEvery man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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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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For truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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One may be humble out of pride.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
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