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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.

Michel de Montaigne

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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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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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Able Event Govern Myself
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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The thing I fear most is fear.
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My trade and art is to live.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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Perpetual Saw See World
Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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