A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEUnless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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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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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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