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Quotations of selected author
Michel de Montaigne
1533-1592. French writer.
categories: Justice -:- Law and Crime -:- Good and Evil
2. "There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees."
categories: Various
3. "There are some defeats more triumphant than victories."
categories: Defeates and Mistakes -:- Peace and War
4. "The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom."
categories: Law and Crime
5. "The thing I fear most is fear."
categories: Bravery and Fear
6. "The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage."
categories: Bravery and Fear
7. "The man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears."
categories: Bravery and Fear -:- Pain and Tears
8. "Saying is one thing and doing is another."
categories: Various
9. "Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it."
categories: Memory
10. "Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance."
categories: Marriage
categories: Marriage
categories: Law and Crime -:- Education
13. "Let us give Nature a chance; she knows her business better than we do."
categories: Nature and Animals -:- Destiny and Fate
14. "It is not death, it is dying that alarms me."
categories: Life and Death
categories: Life and Death
16. "I speak others' minds only to speak my own the more."
source: "Essays"
categories: Various -:- Knowledge, Ignorance
17. "I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself."
source: "Essays"
categories: Egoism
18. "He who would teach men to die would teach them to live."
categories: Life and Death
19. "He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying."
categories: Truth and Falsity
20. "He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears."
categories: Bravery and Fear -:- Pain and Tears
categories: Manners and Ethics
22. "Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows."
categories: Success and Fame
23. "Experience teaches that a strong memory is generally joined to a weak judgment."
categories: Intellect, Judgement -:- Memory
24. "Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness."
categories: Good and Evil -:- Trust
25. "Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face."
categories: Youth and Age
26. "A man must be a little mad if he does not want to be even more stupid."
categories: Normality and Madness -:- Wisdom and Stupidity
27. "A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband."
categories: Marriage
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