Michel de Montaigne: Is it not a noble farce, wherein kings, republics, and emperors have for so many ages played their parts, and to which t

Is it not a noble farce, wherein kings, republics, and emperors have for so many — Michel de Montaigne

Is it not a noble farce, wherein kings, republics, and emperors have for so many ages played their parts, and to which the whole vast universe serves for a theatre?

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Saying is one thing, doing another. — Michel de Montaigne
Hath God obliged himself not to exceed the bounds of our knowledge? — Michel de Montaigne
He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is we — Michel de Montaigne
There is, nevertheless, a certain respect and a general duty of humanity that ti — Michel de Montaigne
My ancestors Heraclitus , Empedocles , Spinoza, Goethe. — Benedictus de Spinoza
Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
From the heights of these pyramids , forty centuries look down on us. — Napoleon
This much is certain, the ERA OF REVOLUTION has now FAIRLY OPENED IN EUROPE once — Karl Marx
Your first love has no beginning or end. Your first love is not your first love, — Nhat Hanh
Myth is the nothing that is everything. — Fernando Pessoa
War is the health of the State and it is during war that one best understands th — Randolph Bourne
You cannot eat your cake and have your cake; 48 and store 's no sore. — Miguel de Cervantes