Michel de Montaigne on perpetual
Michel de Montaigne109 quotes“The world is but a perpetual see-saw.”
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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.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne Ambition is not a vice of little people.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
Joseph AddisonJoseph Addison Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction with the general interest.
Marquis de SadeMarquis de Sade People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.
Terence McKennaTerence McKenna Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
George EliotGeorge Eliot Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear – kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor – with the cry of grave national emergency.
Douglas MacArthurDouglas MacArthur Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear – kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor – with the cry of grave national emergency.
Douglas MacArthurDouglas MacArthur Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
W. Somerset MaughamW. Somerset Maugham Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.
Jean BaudrillardJean Baudrillard