The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNELet us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil’s alphabet – the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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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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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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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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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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