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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 Montaigne

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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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Flee From Know Not Search Well
The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.
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Create Entire Higher Likeness Lower World
The thing I fear most is fear.
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Fear Most Thing
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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Activity Children Game Minded Most Note Play Seen Serious Should
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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Blunder Book Curriculum Page Prank Servant Table Talk
In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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Anything Book Education Good Hand True
There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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More Obvious Perhaps Vanity Write
Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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Being Despise Infirmity Most Our Savage
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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Action Children Deem Most Note Serious Sport Truly
When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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Amuse Cat Her Herself Know More Play Whether
I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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Great Him Injury Lie Myself So Tell Try Whom
Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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Admire Familiar Few Men
Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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Ashamed Let Not Speak Think
Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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Head Ignorance Man Pillow Rest Soften
Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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Acquit All Death Obligation Say
The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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Custom Follow Law Make Way World

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