The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.
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 passion so contagious as that of fear.
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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 not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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My trade and art is to live.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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The prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum.
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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 quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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