Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEHe who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man’s estate.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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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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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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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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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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