My trade and art is to live.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEHow many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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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 life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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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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Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
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I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man’s estate.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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