It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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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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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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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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The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.
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It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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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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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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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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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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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
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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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