The thing I fear most is fear.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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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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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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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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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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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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