The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEOf all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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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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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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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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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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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 thing I fear most is fear.
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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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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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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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