There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEValor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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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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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man’s estate.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil’s alphabet – the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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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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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
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One may be humble out of pride.
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