Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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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One may be humble out of pride.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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My trade and art is to live.
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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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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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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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We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
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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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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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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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