I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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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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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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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.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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