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Michel de Montaigne109 quotes“Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.”
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne 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.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne One may be humble out of pride.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne My trade and art is to live.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne 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.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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