There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI 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.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man’s estate.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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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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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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One may be humble out of pride.
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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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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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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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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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