There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEEvery man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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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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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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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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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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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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