A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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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One may be humble out of pride.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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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 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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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.
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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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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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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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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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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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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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