Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThere is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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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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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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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 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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Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
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I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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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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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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