No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEFor truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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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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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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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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Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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There 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.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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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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One may be humble out of pride.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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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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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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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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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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