No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEOne may be humble out of pride.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man’s estate.
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My trade and art is to live.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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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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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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For truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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