Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil’s alphabet – the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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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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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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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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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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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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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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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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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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