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.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIgnorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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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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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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Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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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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There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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