Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIf there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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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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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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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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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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