A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEMarriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
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If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
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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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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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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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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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My trade and art is to live.
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Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil’s alphabet – the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
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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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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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