Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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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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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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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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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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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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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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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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