How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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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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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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I 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.
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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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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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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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My trade and art is to live.
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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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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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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