There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNENo pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
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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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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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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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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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