But what you’re calling poetry is what everything is. It’s not even poetry — it’s seeing. These materialists are blind. You told me they say space is infinite. Where do they see that in space?” And I, disconcerted: “But don’t you think of space as infinite? Can’t you conceive of space as infinite?” “I don’t conceive of anything as being infinite. How could I conceive of anything as being infinite?” “But, man,” I said, “Imagine space. Beyond that space is more space, and beyond that more, and then more, and more... It never ends...“ “Why?” asked my master Caeiro.
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[Fr., L'obscurite est le royaume de l'erreur.] LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.
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MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE 'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures. MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being. MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened. MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head. MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE My trade and art is to live. MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things. MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul. MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics. MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE If triangles had a god, they would give him three sides. CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century. CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides. CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwe... CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies. CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half. CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it. CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed. CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and th... CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ. CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war. CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death. CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happines... CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU I read, I study, I examine, I listen, I think, and out of all that I try to form an idea into which ... MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE Emotions have taught mankind to reason. LUC DE CLAPIERS Everyone is born sincere and die deceivers. LUC DE CLAPIERS Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good. LUC DE CLAPIERS To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die. LUC DE CLAPIERS Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself. LUC DE CLAPIERS When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected. LUC DE CLAPIERS The maxims of men reveal their characters. LUC DE CLAPIERS Obscurity is the realm of error. LUC DE CLAPIERS The wicked are always surprised to find ability in the good. LUC DE CLAPIERS The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures. LUC DE CLAPIERS The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great amb... LUC DE CLAPIERS Those who can bear all can dare all. LUC DE CLAPIERS We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather. LUC DE CLAPIERS One can not be just if one is not humane. LUC DE CLAPIERS Clearness ornaments profound thoughts. LUC DE CLAPIERS Patience is the art of hoping. LUC DE CLAPIERS All grand thoughts come from the heart. LUC DE CLAPIERS Indolence is the sleep of the mind. LUC DE CLAPIERS One promises much, to avoid giving little. LUC DE CLAPIERS Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something. LUC DE CLAPIERS Great thoughts come from the heart. LUC DE CLAPIERS The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught. LUC DE CLAPIERS The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success. LUC DE CLAPIERS The art of pleasing is the art of deception. LUC DE CLAPIERS