Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEMarriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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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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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil’s alphabet – the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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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 are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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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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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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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 prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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