It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIgnorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.
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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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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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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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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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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 a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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