Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThere is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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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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