Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEFew men have been admired of their familiars.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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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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In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them… Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
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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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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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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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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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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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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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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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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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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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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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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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