The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEPoverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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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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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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Even 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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In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man’s estate.
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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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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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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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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