We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe thing I fear most is fear.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.
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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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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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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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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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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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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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