There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEFortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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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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If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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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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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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