There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNELet us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
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It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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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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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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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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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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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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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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