It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away … - Michel de Montaigne

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I'll be gray by the time I'm 30, but I like my hair. It looks shiny. I like the way it looks when those highlights are picked up on camera.

Michel de Montaigne

It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dissatisfied and fearful, whereas stubbornness and foolhardiness fill their hosts with joy and assurance.

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Every man has within himself the entire human condition

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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.

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Only the fools are certain and assured.

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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.

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On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.

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As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.

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The worst form of slavery is when the slave believes he is free. This is how women under Islam feel.

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I'll be gray by the time I'm 30, but I like my hair. It looks shiny. I like the way it looks when those highlights are picked up on camera.

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Isana felt her throat tighten. "We failed. " Serai lifted her chin and patted Isana's arm firmly. "We have not yet succeeded. There is a difference.

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