Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIt is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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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 strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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