There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEHe who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
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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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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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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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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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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.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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