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.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIf ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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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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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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For truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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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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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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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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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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