For truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEA wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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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 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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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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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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If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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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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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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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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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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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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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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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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