Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNENo pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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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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If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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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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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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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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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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One may be humble out of pride.
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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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