Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEHow many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them… Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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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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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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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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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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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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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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My trade and art is to live.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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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 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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