He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI 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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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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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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Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil’s alphabet – the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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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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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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