Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEA man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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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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The prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum.
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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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I 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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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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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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For truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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