He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNELet us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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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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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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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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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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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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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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