The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEMarriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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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 world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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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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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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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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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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