Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEHow many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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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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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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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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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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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
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It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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