No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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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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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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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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The prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum.
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Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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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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My trade and art is to live.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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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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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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