The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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My trade and art is to live.
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For truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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The prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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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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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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