Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe thing I fear most is fear.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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