She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNELend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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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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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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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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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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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.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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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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