Though we may be learned by another's knowledge, we can never be wise but by our own experience. - Michel de Montaigne

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The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes. . . . The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.

Michel de Montaigne

Though we may be learned by another's knowledge, we can never be wise but by our own experience.

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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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I suppose I envy painters because they can meditate on form and structure, on color and light, and not concern themselves with human torment and chaos. It is restful even to imagine expression without words.

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John Muir

All the wild world is beautiful, and it matters but little where we go, to highlands or lowlands, woods or plains, on the sea or land or down among the crystals of waves or high in a balloon in the sky; through all the climates, hot or cold, storms and calms, everywhere and always we are in God's eternal beauty and love. So universally true is this, the spot where we chance to be always seems the best.

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Irving Layton

Since I no longer expect anything from mankind except madness, meanness, and mendacity; egotism, cowardice, and self-delusion, I have stopped being a misanthrope.

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Dana Perino

What I do see in New York and I am amazed is how many rich women will complain about the cost of something and get things for free. I would never want to be like them, but I can see why they save money.

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