If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEAmbition is not a vice of little people.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.
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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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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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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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I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
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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.
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