It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEUnless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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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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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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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 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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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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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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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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