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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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Love
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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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Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
Michel de Montaigne in
Dreams
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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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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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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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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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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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
Michel de Montaigne in
Education
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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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An unattempted lady could not vaunt of her chastity.
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