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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.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
Autobiographer
Essayist
French Moralist
Jurist
Philosopher
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Writer
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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If faces were not alike, we could not distinguish men from beasts if they were not different, we could not tell one man from another.
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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he, and I was I.
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The religion of my doctor or my lawyer cannot matter. That consideration has nothing in common with the functions of the friendship they owe me.
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The strength of any plan depends on the time. Circumstances and things eternally shift and change.
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Wisdom is a solid and entire building, of which every piece keeps its place and bears its mark.
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Some impose upon the world that they believe that which they do not others, more in number, make themselves believe that they believe, not being able to penetrate into what it is to believe.
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Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.
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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 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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He who lives not to others, lives little to himself.
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We call comeliness a mischance in the first respect, which belongs principally to the face.
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I cruelly hate cruelty, both by nature and reason, as the worst of all the vices. But then I am so soft in this that I cannot seea chicken's neck wrung without distress, and cannot bear to hear the squealing of a hare between the teeth of my hounds.
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I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions.
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