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.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
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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.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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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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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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