Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEA good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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The prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum.
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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One may be humble out of pride.
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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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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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