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.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIt should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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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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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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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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We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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