There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe world is but a perpetual see-saw.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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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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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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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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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
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