There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEVirtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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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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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
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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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The thing I fear most is fear.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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