Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNENothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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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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Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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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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The thing I fear most is fear.
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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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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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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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In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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