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.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThere is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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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 not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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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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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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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 should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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