He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEFew men have been admired of their familiars.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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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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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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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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The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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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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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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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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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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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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