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.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEFew men have been admired of their familiars.
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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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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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My trade and art is to live.
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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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I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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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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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
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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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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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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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