The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEFor truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
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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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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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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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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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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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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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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 have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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My trade and art is to live.
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