A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEOnce conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
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The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil’s alphabet – the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.
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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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