The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNELet us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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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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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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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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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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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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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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