Quote #93
Book I, ch. 23
More from Michel de Montaigne
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- Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
- Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
- It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
- 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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