Montaigne Quotes

A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.

Montaigne

Other passions have objects to flatter them, and seem to content and satisfy them for a while; there is power in ambition, pleasure in luxury, and pelf in covetousness; but envy can gain nothing but vexation

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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.

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I find no quality so easy for a man to counterfeit as devotion, though his life and manner are not conformable to it; the essence of it is abstruse and occult, but the appearances easy and showy.

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Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.

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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.

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