Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
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One may be humble out of pride.
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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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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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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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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.
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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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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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