If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIn true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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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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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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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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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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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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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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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 never loses anything, if he has himself.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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