Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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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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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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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 thing I fear most is fear.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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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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Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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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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If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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