Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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 put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
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Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
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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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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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We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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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.
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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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Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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