Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEMarriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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For truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.
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