My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIf a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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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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I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
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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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It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
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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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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
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It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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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.
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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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