Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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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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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
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If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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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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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.
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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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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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