Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThere is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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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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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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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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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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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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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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One may be humble out of pride.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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