Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
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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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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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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 conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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