Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEWhen I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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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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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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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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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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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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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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The thing I fear most is fear.
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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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