She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIf you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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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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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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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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It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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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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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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