Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.
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My trade and art is to live.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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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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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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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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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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