Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIt is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
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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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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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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
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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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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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The prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum.
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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.
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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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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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