Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil’s alphabet – the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIf you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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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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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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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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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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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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