If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEAn untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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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.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.
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