It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEDeath, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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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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If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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