Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEAn untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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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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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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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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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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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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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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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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