Few men have been admired of their familiars.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEFame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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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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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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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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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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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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I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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