A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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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 confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them… Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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