Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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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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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil’s alphabet – the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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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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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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