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Michel De Montaigne Inspirational Quotes (585)

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A man should ever, as much as in him lieth, be ready booted to take his journey, and above all things look he have then nothing to do but with himself.
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The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
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Necessity is a violent school-mistress.
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For among other things he had been counseled to bring me to love knowledge and duty by my own choice, without forcing my will, and to educate my soul entirely through gentleness and freedom.
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And I loathe people who find it harder to put up with a gown askew than with a soul askew and who judge a man by his bow, his bearing and his boots.
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How many valiant men we have seen to survive their own reputation!
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It needs courage to be afraid.
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The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom we have most certain knowledge. He hath been declared and enlightened by the most clear-seeing men that ever were the testimonies we have of him are in faithfulness and sufficiency most admirable.
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All the world knows me in my book, and my book in me.
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He loves little who loves by rule.
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The only good histories are those that have been written by the persons themselves who commanded in the affairs whereof they write.
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The wise man should withdraw his soul within, out of the crowd, and keep it in freedom and power to judge things freely but as for externals, he should wholly follow the accepted fashions and forms.
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He that I am reading seems always to have the most force.
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Who is it that does not voluntarily exchange his health, his repose, and his very life for reputation and glory? The most useless, frivolous, and false coin that passes current among us.
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There is nothing which so poisons princes as flattery, nor anything whereby wicked men more easily obtain credit and favor with them.
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Take care that old age does not wrinkle your spirit even more than your face.
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A man has need of tough ears to hear himself fairly judged.
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Habit is a second nature.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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Virtue shuns ease as a companion. It demands a rough and thorny path.
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He that first likened glory to a shadow did better than he was aware of. They are both of them things excellently vain. Glory also, like a shadow, goes sometimes before the body, and sometimes in length infinitely exceeds it.
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Happiness involves working toward meaningful goals.
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If I am to serve as an instrument of deceit, at least let it be with a clear conscience. I do not want to be considered either so affectionate or so loyal a servant as to be found fit to betray anyone.
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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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