No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNENothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
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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 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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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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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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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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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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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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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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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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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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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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