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.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEA man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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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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We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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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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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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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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