I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEOnce conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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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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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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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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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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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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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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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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