It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEHe who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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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.
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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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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