Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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My trade and art is to live.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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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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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them… Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
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