There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEShe will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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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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There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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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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