I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIt should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man’s estate.
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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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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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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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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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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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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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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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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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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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