A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe thing I fear most is fear.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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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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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 have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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The prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum.
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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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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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