Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEWe are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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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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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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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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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
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