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.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEFortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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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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The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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