Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEWhen I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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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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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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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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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil’s alphabet – the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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