No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe thing I fear most is fear.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
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The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
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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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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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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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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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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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The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them… Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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