Ambition is not a vice of little people.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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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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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
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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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The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.
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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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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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