Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
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 pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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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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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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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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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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