Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe thing I fear most is fear.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.
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A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
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If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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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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The thing I fear most is fear.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
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