An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThere is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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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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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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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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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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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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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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