Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEMarriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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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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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
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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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The prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum.
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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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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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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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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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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