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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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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For truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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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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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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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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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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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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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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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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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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Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
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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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