In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEStubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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My trade and art is to live.
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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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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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It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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