I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEHe who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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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 public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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