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Michel de Montaigne Quotes

«Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... We sleeping wake, and waking sleep.»
«Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.»
«There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.»
«Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.»
«The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but walking orderly; grandeur does not exercise itself in grandeur, but in mediocrity»
«Miracles arise from our ignorance of nature, not from nature itself»
«Every man beareth the whole stamp of the human condition»
«Nothing is so firmly believed as that which is least known»
«Let us... permit nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we.»
«He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.»