The prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIf ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil’s alphabet – the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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