I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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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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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.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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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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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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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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If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.
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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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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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