There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIgnorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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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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Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
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The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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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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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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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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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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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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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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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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