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.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIt is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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For truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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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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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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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 most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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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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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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