It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThere is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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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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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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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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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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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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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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