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.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEFew men have been admired of their familiars.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
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It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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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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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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One may be humble out of pride.
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My trade and art is to live.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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