One may be humble out of pride.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEAge imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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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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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
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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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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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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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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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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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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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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 the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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