I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man’s estate.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEShe will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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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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I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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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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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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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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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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