Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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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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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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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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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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