I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEOnce conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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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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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.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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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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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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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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