Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEAn untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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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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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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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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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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Love 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.
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