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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My trade and art is to live.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.
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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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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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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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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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One may be humble out of pride.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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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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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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