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 MONTAIGNEThere is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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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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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them… Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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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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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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