Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEHe who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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One may be humble out of pride.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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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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We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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