Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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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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My trade and art is to live.
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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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The prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum.
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One may be humble out of pride.
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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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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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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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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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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.
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