#fe

The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#fixed #life #lost #nowhere #purpose

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

#dream #eyes #gave #him #his

Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#compared #dream #life #our #right

Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#attire #behavior #even #frame #grace

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. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#common #does #each #entire #estate

If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#because #cannot #expressed #feel #him

It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#being #divine #enjoy #how #know

The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#ceaseless #death #house #labour #life

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#more #some #than #triumphant #victories

Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#feels #good #lie #man #memory