The thing I fear most is fear.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThere is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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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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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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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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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.
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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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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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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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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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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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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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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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