Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThere are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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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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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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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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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.
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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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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man’s estate.
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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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