There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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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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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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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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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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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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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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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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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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