The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEAn untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
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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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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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