Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThere are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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One may be humble out of pride.
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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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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 fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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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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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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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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