It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNETis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget 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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There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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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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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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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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A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
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