Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIgnorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
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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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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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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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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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