He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEVirtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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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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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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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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