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 MONTAIGNEEvery man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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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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Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
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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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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
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