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.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNELove 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.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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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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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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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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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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