The thing I fear most is fear.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIt is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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My trade and art is to live.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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