Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man’s estate.
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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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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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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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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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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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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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