I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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 there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them… Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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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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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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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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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
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