Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIt is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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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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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.
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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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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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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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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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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