Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEOnce conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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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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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
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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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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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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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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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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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The thing I fear most is fear.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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One may be humble out of pride.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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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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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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