If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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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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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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
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My trade and art is to live.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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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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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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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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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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