How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEHe who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
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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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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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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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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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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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