How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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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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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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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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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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