There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNELend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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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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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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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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It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
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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 know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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