Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThere is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
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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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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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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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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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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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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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The prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum.
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