If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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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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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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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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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
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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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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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