The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEMake your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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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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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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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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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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If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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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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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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