Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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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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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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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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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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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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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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