No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNELove to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them… Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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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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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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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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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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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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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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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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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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