She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIt is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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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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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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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 only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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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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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
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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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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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