Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEA man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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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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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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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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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
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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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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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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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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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