My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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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My trade and art is to live.
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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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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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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One may be humble out of pride.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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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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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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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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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
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The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them… Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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