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.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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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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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
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The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them… Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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