Behold the hands, how they promise, conjure, appeal, menace, pray, sup…

Michel de Montaigne
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Behold the hands, how they promise, conjure, appeal, menace, pray, supplicate, refuse, beckon, interrogate, admire, confess, cringe, instruct, command, mock and what not besides, with a variation and multiplication of variation which makes the tongue envious.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees. ✨ Attributed to Essais by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.
I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
When I dance, I dance; when I sleep, I sleep; yes, and when I walk alone in a beautiful orchard, if my thoughts drift to far-off matters for some part of the time for some other part I lead them back … ▶
There is, nevertheless, a certain respect and a general duty of humanity that ties us, not only to beasts that have life and sense, but even to trees and plants. ✨ Michel de Montaigne, Bayle St. John … ▶
Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.

Behold the hands, how they promise, conjure, appeal, menace, pray, supplicate, refuse, beckon, interrogate, admire, confess, cringe, instruct, command, mock and what not besides, with a variation and multiplication of variation which makes the tongue envious.

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