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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
Michel de Montaigne
Communication
Pleasure
The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.
Michel de Montaigne
World
The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
Michel de Montaigne
God
Virtue
Confidence
Favors
Light
Man
The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
Michel de Montaigne
Death
Life
The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
Michel de Montaigne
Open
Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
Michel de Montaigne
Opinion
Proof
Stupidity
Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
Michel de Montaigne
Present
Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
Michel de Montaigne
Soul
Poverty
One may be humble out of pride.
Michel de Montaigne
May
Pride
Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
Michel de Montaigne
Soul
Senses
Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
Michel de Montaigne
Being
Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
Michel de Montaigne
Nothing
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
Michel de Montaigne
Forget
Memory
Nothing
Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
Michel de Montaigne
Wit
No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
Michel de Montaigne
Wind