Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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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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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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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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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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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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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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