We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.
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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.
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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.
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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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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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