The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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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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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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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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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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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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