The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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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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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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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 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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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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