Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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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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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Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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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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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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In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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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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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
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