I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIt is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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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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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
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One may be humble out of pride.
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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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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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.
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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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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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