She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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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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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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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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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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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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One may be humble out of pride.
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