Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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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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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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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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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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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
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