I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
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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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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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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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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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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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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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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil’s alphabet – the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
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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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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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