A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEHe who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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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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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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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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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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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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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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