My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEAny person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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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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There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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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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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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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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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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