There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEHow many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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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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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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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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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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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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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
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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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If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
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