He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEShe will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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My trade and art is to live.
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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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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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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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