Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEFortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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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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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
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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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My trade and art is to live.
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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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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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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
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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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