It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEValor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
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We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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