Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI quote others only in order the better to express myself.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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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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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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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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I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
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There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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For truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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