One may be humble out of pride.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEMarriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man’s estate.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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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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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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A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
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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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