It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThere is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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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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It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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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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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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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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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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