Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man’s estate.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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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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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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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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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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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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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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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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One may be humble out of pride.
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Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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