Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEAmbition is not a vice of little people.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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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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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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My trade and art is to live.
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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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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 world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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