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 MONTAIGNEIf 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.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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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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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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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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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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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man’s estate.
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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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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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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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