Tag: 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 way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
Michel de Montaigne
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
Michel de Montaigne
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
Michel de Montaigne
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
Michel de Montaigne
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
Michel de Montaigne
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
Michel de Montaigne
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‘Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
Michel de Montaigne
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
Michel de Montaigne
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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
Michel de Montaigne