Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil’s alphabet – the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEEvery man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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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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Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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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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