The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEConfidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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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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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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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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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
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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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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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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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The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
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I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
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