How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIgnorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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For truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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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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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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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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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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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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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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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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