A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThere is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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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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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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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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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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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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