Michel de Montaigne
Quotations
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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.” -Michel de Montaigne
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“The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.” -Michel de Montaigne
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“I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.” -Michel de Montaigne
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“It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.” -Michel de Montaigne
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“Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.” -Michel de Montaigne
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“Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.” -Michel de Montaigne
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“Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.” -Michel de Montaigne
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“If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.” -Michel de Montaigne
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“If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.” -Michel de Montaigne
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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.” -Michel de Montaigne
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“Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.” -Michel de Montaigne
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“There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.” -Michel de Montaigne
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“There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.” -Michel de Montaigne
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“If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.” -Michel de Montaigne
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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.” -Michel de Montaigne
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“Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.” -Michel de Montaigne
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“If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.” -Michel de Montaigne
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“The thing I fear most is fear.” -Michel de Montaigne
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“There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.” -Michel de Montaigne
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“How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.” -Michel de Montaigne
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“There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.” -Michel de Montaigne
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“In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum.” -Michel de Montaigne
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“Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.” -Michel de Montaigne
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“The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.” -Michel de Montaigne
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“The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.” -Michel de Montaigne
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“No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.” -Michel de Montaigne
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“Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.” -Michel de Montaigne
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“Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.” -Michel de Montaigne
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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. – Michel de Montaigne
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face. – Michel de Montaigne
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