Tag: 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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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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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
Michel de Montaigne
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
Michel de Montaigne
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
Michel de Montaigne
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One may be humble out of pride.
Michel de Montaigne
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
Michel de Montaigne
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
Michel de Montaigne
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
Michel de Montaigne
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
Michel de Montaigne