Love 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.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEOnce conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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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 myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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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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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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