We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEAge imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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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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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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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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In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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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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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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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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I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
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