Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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 set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man’s estate.
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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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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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
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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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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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The prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum.
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If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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