An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEPoverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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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 one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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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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Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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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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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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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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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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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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For truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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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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