It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
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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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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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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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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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One may be humble out of pride.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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