It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNELend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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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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The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them… Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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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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In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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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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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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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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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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