I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIgnorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
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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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It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
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In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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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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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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