The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe thing I fear most is fear.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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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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I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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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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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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