Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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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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I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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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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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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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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My trade and art is to live.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
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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 soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
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