It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
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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The thing I fear most is 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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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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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 not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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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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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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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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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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My trade and art is to live.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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