More from Michel de Montaigne

  1. Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
  2. Ambition is not a vice of little people.
  3. A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
  4. An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
  5. A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
  6. Confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
  7. Let us give Nature a chance; she knows her business better than we do.
  8. Si, avons nous beau monter sur des echasses, car sur des echasses encore faut-il marcher de nos jambes. Et au plus eleve trone du monde, si…

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