No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI 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.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
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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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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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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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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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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 good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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