The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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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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We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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My trade and art is to live.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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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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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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