No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThere is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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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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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
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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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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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