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Michel de Montainge:Ambition is not a vice of


Ambition is not a vice of little people.
by Michel de Montainge


Michel De Montaigne:My trade and art is to live.


My trade and art is to live.
by Michel De Montaigne


Jules de Gaultier:Imagination is the one weapon


Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
by Jules de Gaultier


Michel Eyquem de Montaigne:Truly, it is not


Truly, it is not want, but rather abundance, that breeds avarice.
by Michel Eyquem de Montaigne


Madame De Staël:We cease loving ourselves if no


We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
by Madame De Staël


Luc De Vauvenargues:We are almost always guilty


We are almost always guilty of the hate we encounter.
by Luc De Vauvenargues


Michel De Montaigne:It is not death, it is dying


It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
by Michel De Montaigne


Michel De Montaigne:Death, they say, acquits us


Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
by Michel De Montaigne


Michel De Montaigne:One may be humble out of


One may be humble out of pride.
by Michel De Montaigne


Michel De Montaigne:The world is but a perpetual


The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
by Michel De Montaigne


Miguel De Cervantes:That's the nature of women,


That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.
by Miguel De Cervantes


Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle:A great obstacle


A great obstacle to happiness is to anticipate too great a happiness.
by Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle


Jean De La Bruyère:Grief at the absence of a


Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
by Jean De La Bruyère


Guy de Maupassant:Every government has as much


Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.
by Guy de Maupassant


Michel de Montaigne:Even on the most exalted


Even on the most exalted throne in the world we areonly sitting on our own bottom.
by Michel de Montaigne


Madame de Pompadour:Champagne is the only wine a


Champagne is the only wine a woman can drink and still remain beautiful.
by Madame de Pompadour


Antoine de Saint-Exupéry:Love does not consist


Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry


Michel De Montaigne:Confidence in the goodness


Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.
by Michel De Montaigne


Michel De Montaigne:'Tis the sharpness of our


'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
by Michel De Montaigne


Michel De Montaigne:Hath God obliged himself not


Hath God obliged himself not to exceed the bounds of our knowledge?
by Michel De Montaigne


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