How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man’s estate.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
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