Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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