Attributed quotes — Michel de Montaigne
1533–1592 France
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Hath God obliged himself not to exceed the bounds of our knowledge?
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
Ambition is not a vice of little people.
Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.
Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying.
No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.
Attribution
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