How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEA good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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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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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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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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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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For truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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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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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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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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