We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
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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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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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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A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
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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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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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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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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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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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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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