A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIf 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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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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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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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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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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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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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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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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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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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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