It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEDeath, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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The prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum.
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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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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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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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