It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThere is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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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 do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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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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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them… Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
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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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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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