Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThere 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.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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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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Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
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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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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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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
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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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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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My trade and art is to live.
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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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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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