No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIt is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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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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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 perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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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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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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One may be humble out of pride.
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I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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