When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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 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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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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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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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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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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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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