A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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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The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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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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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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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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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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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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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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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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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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