Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEOf all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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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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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
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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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The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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My trade and art is to live.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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