I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEOf all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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My trade and art is to live.
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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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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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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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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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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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