She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.
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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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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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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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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
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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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