My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI quote others only in order the better to express myself.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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