Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
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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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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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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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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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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Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
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It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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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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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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