There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNENothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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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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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.
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The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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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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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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