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.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNENothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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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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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them… Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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The prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum.
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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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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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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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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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