Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEAmbition is not a vice of little people.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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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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If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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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 not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them… Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
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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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My trade and art is to live.
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