I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIt is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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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 no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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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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If 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.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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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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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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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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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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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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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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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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