Tag: Michel de Montaigne
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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.
Michel de Montaigne
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
Michel de Montaigne
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The thing I fear most is fear.
Michel de Montaigne
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
Michel de Montaigne
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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.
Michel de Montaigne
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
Michel de Montaigne
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
Michel de Montaigne
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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
Michel de Montaigne
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My trade and art is to live.
Michel de Montaigne
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
Michel de Montaigne