I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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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In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
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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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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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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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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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