How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEAge imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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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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I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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