There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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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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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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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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 do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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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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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
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My trade and art is to live.
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