We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEStubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
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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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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
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In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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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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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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