Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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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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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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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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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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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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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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The prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum.
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