My trade and art is to live.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEMy life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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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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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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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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For truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
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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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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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