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 MONTAIGNEPoverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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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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