Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe 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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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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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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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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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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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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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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