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.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe world is but a perpetual see-saw.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them… Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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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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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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My trade and art is to live.
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