I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEA man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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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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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.
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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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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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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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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.
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Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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