I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIt 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.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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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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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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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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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.
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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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It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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