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.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEFame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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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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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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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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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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