Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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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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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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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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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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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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