There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNENo wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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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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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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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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If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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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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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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