A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThose who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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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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Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
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It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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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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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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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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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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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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