A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNENo wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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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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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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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.
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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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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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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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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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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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