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.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI 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.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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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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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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My trade and art is to live.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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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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