We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNENo pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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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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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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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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Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil’s alphabet – the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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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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