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Michel de Montaigne

Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.

-Michel de Montaigne

age

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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alone

My trade and art is to live.

-Michel de Montaigne

art

Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.

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best

Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.

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business

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

communication

No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.

-Michel de Montaigne

communication

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

-Michel de Montaigne

courage

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

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courage

It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.

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death

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

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death

The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.

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death

Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.

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dreams

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

-Michel de Montaigne

education

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.

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education

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

-Michel de Montaigne

failure

How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.

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faith

There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.

-Michel de Montaigne

family

There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.

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family

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

-Michel de Montaigne

fear

The thing I fear most is fear.

-Michel de Montaigne

fear

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

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friendship

Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.

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future

The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.

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god

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

-Michel de Montaigne

good

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

-Michel de Montaigne

good

There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.

-Michel de Montaigne

government

It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.

-Michel de Montaigne

intelligence

We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

-Michel de Montaigne

knowledge

There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.

-Michel de Montaigne

knowledge

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

learning

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

life

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

love

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

-Michel de Montaigne

love

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

-Michel de Montaigne

marriage

Michel de Montaigne

Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.

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.

My trade and art is to live.

Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.

Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.

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.

No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.

Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

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.

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.

There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.

There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

The thing I fear most is fear.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.

The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.

It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.

We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.

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.

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.

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

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