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.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNELove 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.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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For truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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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 soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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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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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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The prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
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