There is no passion so contagious as that of 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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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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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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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.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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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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I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man’s estate.
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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