She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEAn untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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The prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum.
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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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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
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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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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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My trade and art is to live.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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