Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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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I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
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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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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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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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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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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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