A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEMarriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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For truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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