My trade and art is to live.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI 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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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.
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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 no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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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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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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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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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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