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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.
By Michel de Montaigne
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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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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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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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: 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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In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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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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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 will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can.
By Michel de Montaigne
I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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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 prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
By Michel de Montaigne
I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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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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I believe it to be true that dreams are the true interpreters of our inclinations; but there is art required to sort and understand them.
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command, shows that his reason is weak.
By Michel de Montaigne