We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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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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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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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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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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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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The thing I fear most is fear.
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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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