How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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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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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man’s estate.
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