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Seem Quotes by Michel de Montaigne
- We seem ambitious God's whole work to undo. ...With new diseases on ourselves we war, And with new physic, a worse engine far.
- Things seem greater by imagination than they are in effect.
- Their [the Skeptics'] way of speaking is: "I settle nothing. . . . I do not understand it. . . . Nothing seems true that…
- Some men seem remarkable to the world in whom neither their wives nor their valets saw anything extraordinary. Few men have been admired by their…
- Other passions have objects to flatter them, and seem to content and satisfy them for a while; there is power in ambition, pleasure in luxury,…
- 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 worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to…
- To behave rightly, we ourselves should never lay a hand on our servants as long as our anger lasts. Things will seem different to us…
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