A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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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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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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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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Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
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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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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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