He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEEvery one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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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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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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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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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 public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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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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For truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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