I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe thing I fear most is fear.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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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 not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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My trade and art is to live.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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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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