I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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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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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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