She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEWe only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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The prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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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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We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
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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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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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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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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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