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 MONTAIGNE
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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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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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
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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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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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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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