The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEAge imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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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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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them… Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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My trade and art is to live.
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