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The lack of wealth is easily repaired but the poverty of the soul is irreplaceable.

The lack of wealth is easily repaired but the poverty of the soul is irreplaceable.

Michel de Montaigne
Inspirational, Character, Soul

The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.

Michel de Montaigne
Beauty, Beautiful, Soul
Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.894, Delphi Classics

Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.

Michel de Montaigne
Attitude, Soul, Poverty

The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.

Michel de Montaigne
Cute, Soul, Lost Friendship

My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest outside, as I do another corner in my soul.

Michel de Montaigne
War, Home, Soul

Greatness of soul consists not so much in soaring high and in pressing forward, as in knowing how to adapt and limit oneself.

Michel de Montaigne
Greatness, Knowing, Soul

The most regular and most perfect soul in the world has but too much to do to keep itself upright from being overthrown by its own weakness.

Michel de Montaigne
Perfect, Soul, Weakness
Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.580, Delphi Classics

Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul; it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons, but in our own.

Michel de Montaigne
Horse, Heart, Soul
Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.157, Stanford University Press

The least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful; the best occupations are the least forced.

Michel de Montaigne
Happiness, Beautiful, Soul
Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.622, Stanford University Press

The soul that has no established aim loses itself

Michel de Montaigne
Soul, Aim, Loses
Michel de Montaigne “Annotated Essays of Michel de Montaigne with English Grammar Exercises: by Michel de Montaigne (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold...The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbor creates a war betwixt princes.

Michel de Montaigne
War, Equality, Soul
"Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book II, Ch. 12, 1595.

As great enmities spring from great friendships, and mortal distempers from vigorous health, so do the most surprising and the wildest frenzies from the high and lively agitations of our souls.

Michel de Montaigne
Spring, Soul, Agitation

Only he can judge of matters great and high whose soul is likewise.

Michel de Montaigne
Judging, Soul, Matter

The recognition of virtue is not less valuable from the lips of the man who hates it, since truth forces him to acknowledge it; and though he may be unwilling to take it into his inmost soul, he at least decks himself out in its trappings.

Michel de Montaigne
Hate, Men, Soul

Obstinacy and contention are common qualities, most appearing in, and best becoming, a mean and illiterate soul.

Michel de Montaigne
Mean, Soul, Quality
Michel de Montaigne, George Savile Marquis of Halifax (1743). “Montaigne's Essays in Three Books: With Notes and Quotations. And an Account of the Author's Life. With a Short Character of the Author and Translator”, p.168

The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.

Michel de Montaigne
Soul, Finest, Variety

There is no so wretched and coarse a soul wherein some particular faculty is not seen to shine.

Michel de Montaigne
Shining, Soul, Genius
Michel de Montaigne (2013). “Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays”, p.132, Courier Corporation

Nor is it enough to toughen up his soul; you must also toughen up his muscles.

Michel de Montaigne
Educational, Soul, Enough
Michel de Montaigne (1991). “The essays of Michel de Montaigne”, Lane, Allen

Friendship that possesses the whole soul, and there rules and sways with an absolute sovereignty, can admit of no rival.

Michel de Montaigne
Friendship, Soul, Rivals
Michel de Montaigne (1853). “The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy. With Notes from All the Commentators, Biographical and Bibliographical Notices &c., &c”, p.82

I honor most those to whom I show least honor; and where my soul moves with great alacrity, I forget the proper steps of ceremony.

Michel de Montaigne
Moving, Self, Soul
Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.186, Stanford University Press

Pride and curiosity are the two scourges of our souls. The latter prompts us to poke our noses into everything, and the former forbids us to leave anything unresolved and undecided.

Michel de Montaigne
Pride, Two, Soul
Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Essays”

It is for little souls, that truckle under the weight of affairs, not to know how clearly to disengage themselves, and not to know how to lay them aside and take them up again.

Michel de Montaigne
Soul, Weight, Littles
Michel de Montaigne (1860). “The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy”, p.541

The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mould

Michel de Montaigne
Soul, Cobblers, Mould
Michel de Montaigne (1856). “The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy”, p.244

Vice leaves repentance in the soul, like an ulcer in the flesh, which is always scratching and lacerating itself; for reason effaces all other griefs and sorrows, but it begets that of repentance.

Michel de Montaigne
Grief, Soul, Sorrow
Michel de Montaigne (1860). “The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy”, p.398

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 them aside and pick them up again.

Michel de Montaigne
Soul, Doe, Weight
Michel de Montaigne, John Michael Cohen (1959). “Essays”, Penguin Classics

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