Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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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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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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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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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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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.
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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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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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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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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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My trade and art is to live.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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