If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEHe who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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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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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
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We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
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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.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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My trade and art is to live.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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