Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNENo pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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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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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
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A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
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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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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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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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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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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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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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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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