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.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThere is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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My trade and art is to live.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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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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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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