Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThere is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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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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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
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If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.
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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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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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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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