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" A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears. "
Michel de Montaigne
Fears
Who
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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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" I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly. "
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" 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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" 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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" In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: 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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" There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to. "
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" Few men have been admired of their familiars. "
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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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" If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves. "
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Myself
Too Much
Think
" I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself. "
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" Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee. "
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Rejoice
Things
Beyond
" Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness. "
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Own
" Not being able to govern events, I govern myself. "
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Able
Myself
Govern
" 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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Family
Less
Much
" The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness. "
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Most
Cheerfulness
" It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason. "
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" One may be humble out of pride. "
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Pride
Be Humble
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" Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way. "
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She
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Way
" Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition. "
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Whole
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Human
" Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky. "
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She
Chance
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" No pleasure has any savor for me without communication. "
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Me
Without
Communication
" He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak. "
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Reason
Argument
He
" Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face. "
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Age
Than
More
" In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you. "
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Cannot
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