Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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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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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
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Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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It 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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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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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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The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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My trade and art is to live.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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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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