Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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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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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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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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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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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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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them… Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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