If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIn nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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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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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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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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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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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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