Aug 25, 2014
There are some people who would never have fallen in love, if they had not heard there was such a thing.
La Rochefoucauld
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There are some people who would never have fallen in love, if they had not heard there was such a thing.
La Rochefoucauld
Conquer yourself rather than the world.
Descartes
‘Animals frequently had the upper hand [over humans] in love as well. Montaigne read enviously of an elephant who had fallen in love with a flower-seller in Alexandria. When being led through the market, he knew how to slip his wrinkled trunk through her neckband and would massage her breasts with a dexterity no human could match.’
p120 Consolations of Philosophy, Alain de Botton
To learn that we have said or done a stupid thing is nothing, we must learn a more ample and important lesson; that we are but blockheads.
- Montaigne