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Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.

Michel de Montaigne

I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.

Michel de Montaigne

Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.

Michel de Montaigne

I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.

Michel de Montaigne

Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity.

Michel de Montaigne

Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.

Michel de Montaigne

An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.

Michel de Montaigne

An unattempted lady could not vaunt of her chastity.

Michel de Montaigne

Ambition is not a vice of little people.

Michel de Montaigne

Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.

Michel de Montaigne

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

Michel de Montaigne

A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.

Michel de Montaigne

A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.

Michel de Montaigne

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

Michel de Montaigne

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Michel de Montaigne