How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIt is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
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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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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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