The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThose who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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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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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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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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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 soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
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Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil’s alphabet – the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
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