I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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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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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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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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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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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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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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