Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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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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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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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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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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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil’s alphabet – the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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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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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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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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