Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIt should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
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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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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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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 fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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