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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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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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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For truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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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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Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
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If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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