Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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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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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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