A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEValor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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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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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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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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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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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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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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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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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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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 prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum.
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