The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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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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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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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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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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My trade and art is to live.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
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