The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEHe who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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My trade and art is to live.
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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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