Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNENo pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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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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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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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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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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