Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEMy life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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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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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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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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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.
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There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
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