Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEA straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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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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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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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 know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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