A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
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 don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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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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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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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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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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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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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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My trade and art is to live.
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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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