Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
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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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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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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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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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One may be humble out of pride.
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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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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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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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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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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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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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