Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIgnorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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One may be humble out of pride.
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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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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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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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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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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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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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