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.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEWe are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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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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It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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One may be humble out of pride.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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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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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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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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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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