I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man’s estate.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNETis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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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 ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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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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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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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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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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