Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIgnorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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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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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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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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The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.
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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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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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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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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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