Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIf a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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One may be humble out of pride.
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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man’s estate.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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