It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEVirtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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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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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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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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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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One may be humble out of pride.
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My trade and art is to live.
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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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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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