The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them… Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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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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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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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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