I consider a dream like I consider a shadow,” answered Caeiro, with his usual divine, unexpected promptitude. “A shadow is real, but it’s less real than a rock. A dream is real — if it weren’t, it wouldn’t be a dream — but less real than a thing. That’s what being real is like.


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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