In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThere is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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One may be humble out of pride.
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The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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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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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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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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