Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNENo pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
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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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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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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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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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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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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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