The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEAmbition is not a vice of little people.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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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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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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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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I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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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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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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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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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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