Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNENo pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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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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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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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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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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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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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
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