He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThere is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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My trade and art is to live.
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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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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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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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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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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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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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