Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEUnless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
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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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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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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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