The thing I fear most is fear.
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 soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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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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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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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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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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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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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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