Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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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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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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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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One may be humble out of pride.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
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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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