The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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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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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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There is no passion so contagious as that of 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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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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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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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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