There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEA wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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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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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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In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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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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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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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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