No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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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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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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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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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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