A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil’s alphabet – the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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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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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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