Tag: 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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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
Michel de Montaigne
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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
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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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
Michel de Montaigne
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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.
Michel de Montaigne
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Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
Michel de Montaigne
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In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
Michel de Montaigne
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I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man’s estate.
Michel de Montaigne
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne