Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEAn untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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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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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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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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Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
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I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man’s estate.
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