How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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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One may be humble out of pride.
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My trade and art is to live.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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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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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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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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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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