The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEA good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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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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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 there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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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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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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