The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIf you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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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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We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
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I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man’s estate.
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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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It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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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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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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