We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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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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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The thing I fear most is fear.
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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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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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I 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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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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For truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them… Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
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