If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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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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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them… Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
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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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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
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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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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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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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