There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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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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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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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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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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