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Doe Quotes by Michel de Montaigne
- A hair shirt does not always render those chaste who wear it.
- The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but in walking orderly.
- Learning is a good medicine: but no medicine is powerful enough to preserve itself from taint and corruption independently of defects in the jar that…
- In my opinion, the most fruitful and natural play of the mind is in conversation. I find it sweeter than any other action in life;…
- The concern that some women show at the absence of their husbands, does not arise from their not seeing them and being with them, but…
- For truth itself does not have the privilege to be employed at any time and in every way; its use, noble as it is, has…
- Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.
- The man who thinks he knows does not yet know what knowing is
- He who does not live in some degree for others, hardly lives for himself.
- Take care that old age does not wrinkle your spirit even more than your face.
- We are nearer neighbors to ourselves than the whiteness of snow or the weight of stones are to us: if man does not know himself,…
- Men do not know the natural infirmity of their mind: it does nothing but ferret and quest, and keeps incessantly whirling around, building up and…
- There is no virtue which does not rejoice a well-descended nature; there is a kind of I know not what congratulation in well-doing, that gives…
- 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…
- Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
- I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life…
- It is a small soul, buried beneath the weight of affairs, that does not know how to get clean away from them, that cannot put…
- One must be a little foolish if one does not want to be even more stupid.
- Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.
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- True information does good. — Julian Assange
- I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe… — Dean Acheson
- Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation. — Bashar al-Assad
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- Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything… — Francis of Assisi