An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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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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The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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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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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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The thing I fear most is fear.
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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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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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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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In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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