My trade and art is to live.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNENo wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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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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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 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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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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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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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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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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