Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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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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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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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
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It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
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Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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The prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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