Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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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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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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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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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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