My trade and art is to live.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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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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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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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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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
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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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I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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