The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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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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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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For truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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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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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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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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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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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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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
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