A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEMy life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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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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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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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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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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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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My trade and art is to live.
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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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