A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEA wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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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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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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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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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man’s estate.
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It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
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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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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.
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My trade and art is to live.
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
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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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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
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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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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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