The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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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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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
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Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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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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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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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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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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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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