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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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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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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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
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Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
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