He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEMarriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
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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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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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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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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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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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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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