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.
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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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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For truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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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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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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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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My trade and art is to live.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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