There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIf there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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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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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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