The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNENo pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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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.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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My trade and art is to live.
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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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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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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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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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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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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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