The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNENothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them… Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
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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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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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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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