An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNELove 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.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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My trade and art is to live.
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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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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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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