The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
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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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The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.
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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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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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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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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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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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