Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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 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 public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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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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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.
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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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