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.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIt is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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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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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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