Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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 speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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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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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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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 way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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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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In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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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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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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