It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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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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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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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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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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The prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum.
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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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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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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.
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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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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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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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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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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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