Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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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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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
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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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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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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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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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