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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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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 public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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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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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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Could Fool Fortune Lucky Made Make See Wise
Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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It 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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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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