If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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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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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.
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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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