It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNENo wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
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Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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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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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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