Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThere is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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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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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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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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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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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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Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
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