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.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNENo pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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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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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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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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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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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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