Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThose who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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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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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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