I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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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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The prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum.
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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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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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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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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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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
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