There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNENo pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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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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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
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The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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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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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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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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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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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.
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