All the world knows me in my book, and my book in me.
Michel De MontaigneRead
One open way of speaking introduces another open way of speaking, and draws out discoveries, like wine and love.
Interpretation
Open communication fosters deeper connections and insights, similar to the effects of wine and love.
In this quote, Montaigne emphasizes the importance of open and honest dialogue. He suggests that when one person speaks openly, it encourages others to do the same, leading to meaningful discoveries and connections, much like how wine and love can enhance experiences and relationships. This reflects the transformative power of communication in human interactions.
In practice
In a team meeting, to encourage participation, one might say, 'As Montaigne said, one open way of speaking introduces another, so let's share our thoughts freely.'
All the world knows me in my book, and my book in me.
All I say is by way of discourse, and nothing by way of advice. I should not speak so boldly if it were my due to be believed.
Pythagoras used to say that life resembles the Olympic Games: a few people strain their muscles to carry off a prize; others bring trinkets to sell to the crowd for gain; and some there are, and not the worst, who seek no other profit than to look at the show and see how and why everything is done; spectators of the life of other people in order to judge and regulate their own.
There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
Such as are in immediate fear of a losing their estates, of banishment, or of slavery, live in perpetual anguish, and lose all appetite and repose; whereas such as are actually poor, slaves, or exiles, ofttimes live as merrily as other folk.
History knew the truth. History was the most inhuman product of humanity.It scooped up the whole of human will and, like the goddess Kali in Calcutta, dripped blood from its mouth as it bit and crunched.
There are periods of history when the visions of madmen and dope fiends are a better guide to reality than the common-sense interpretation of data available to the so-called normal mind. This is one such period, if you haven't noticed already.
Stars, I have seen them fall, But when they drop and die No star is lost at all From all the star-sown sky. The toil of all that be Helps not the primal fault; It rains into the sea And still the sea is salt.
Tithe in kind where your spirit is fed.
Every time I look in the mirror, I see that kid from Louisville, Kentucky, staring back at me. His name was Cassius Clay.
All things are our relatives; what we do to everything, we do to ourselves. All is really One.
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