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.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEMy life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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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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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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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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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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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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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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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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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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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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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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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
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