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.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIt is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them… Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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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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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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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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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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