Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNELet us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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For truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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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 know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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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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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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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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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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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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I 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.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
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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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