Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEFortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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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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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
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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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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.
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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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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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One may be humble out of pride.
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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 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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