I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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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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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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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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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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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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 public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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