I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEPoverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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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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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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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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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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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil’s alphabet – the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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