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.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
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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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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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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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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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