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.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEWe can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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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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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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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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