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.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThere 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.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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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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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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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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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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