Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEShe will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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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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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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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.
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Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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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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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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