Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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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 a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.
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