Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThere is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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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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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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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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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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