There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThose who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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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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The prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum.
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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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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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For truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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