"If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I."
― Michel de Montaigne
Topic(s):
Love
More From Michel de Montaigne
- "Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep."
- "There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to."
- "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."
More In Love
- "I love it when someone insults me. That means that I don’t have to be nice anymore."― Billy Idol
- "If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus."― Emma Goldman
- "I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me."― Simone de Beauvoir