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 MONTAIGNE- Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
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Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
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Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThose who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
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I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNENothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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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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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIf there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEMake your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEFew men have been admired of their familiars.
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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.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe 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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Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEWit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEStubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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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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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEA good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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