Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEA good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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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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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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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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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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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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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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