Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNELet us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.
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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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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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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 prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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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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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
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If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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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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The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them… Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
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