I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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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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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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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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We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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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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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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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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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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