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 MONTAIGNEEven from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
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My trade and art is to live.
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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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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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For truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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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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