We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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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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I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
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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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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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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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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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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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