Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man’s estate.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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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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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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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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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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