A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEAge imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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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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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 is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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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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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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One may be humble out of pride.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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