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

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• Michel de Montaigne:

  There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

• Michel de Montaigne:

  Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.

• Michel de Montaigne:

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

• Michel de Montaigne:

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

• Michel de Montaigne:

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

• Michel de Montaigne:

  Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.

• Michel de Montaigne:

  Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.

• Michel de Montaigne:

  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:

  Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.

• Michel de Montaigne:

  I quote others only in order the better to express myself.