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Michel de Montaigne Quotes

«Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.»
«Ambition is not a vice of little people»
«Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.»
«The word is half his that speaks, and half his that hears it.»
«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.»
«Many a man has been a wonder to the world, whose wife and valet have seen nothing in him that was even remarkable. Few men have been admired by their servants.»
«Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.»
«For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.»
«Virtue will have nothing to do with ease . . . It demands a steep and thorny road.»
«Things don't change as much as feelings.»