The thing I fear most is fear.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI 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.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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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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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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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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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 most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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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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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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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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