Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEWe are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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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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The thing I fear most is fear.
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The prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum.
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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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Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil’s alphabet – the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
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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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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 perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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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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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
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