We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe thing I fear most is fear.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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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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It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
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I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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