There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEMarriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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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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Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
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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 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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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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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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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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