No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe thing I fear most is fear.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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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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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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My trade and art is to live.
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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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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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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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The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
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Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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