There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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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.
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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
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In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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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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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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One may be humble out of pride.
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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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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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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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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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