Quote #128

There is a plague on Man, the opinion that he knows something.

More from Michel de Montaigne

  1. There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
  2. There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
  3. The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
  4. There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
  5. The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
  6. There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
  7. The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
  8. There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

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