One may be humble out of pride.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThere is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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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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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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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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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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The prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum.
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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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