If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEVirtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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My trade and art is to live.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them… Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
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It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.
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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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