Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThose who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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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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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man’s estate.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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