The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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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 an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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My trade and art is to live.
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I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man’s estate.
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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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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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If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
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