There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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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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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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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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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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One may be humble out of pride.
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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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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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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My trade and art is to live.
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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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