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 MONTAIGNEIt is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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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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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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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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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
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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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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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