Michel de Montaigne on conversation
Michel de Montaigne109 quotes“There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.”
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne For truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne The thing I fear most is fear.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne 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.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne
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