Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEHe who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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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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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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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 thing I fear most is fear.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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