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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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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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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Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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