Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNELet us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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My trade and art is to live.
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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