No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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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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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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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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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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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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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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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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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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