Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNENo pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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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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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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The thing I fear most is 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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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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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.
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Love 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.
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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