My trade and art is to live.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIt 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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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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One may be humble out of pride.
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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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